The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) must be scrapped, and counterinsurgency operations entrusted to the local police, who, in turn, must be retrained and re-equipped for the purpose. Democratic politics must give ordinary people a visible stake in peace and integration. This is not a novel idea but one whose crying need is once again underlined by the killing of 14 civilians and a soldier in Nagaland last week.
Amita Singh The politics of our country is on a test drive of majoritarianism being ferociously provoked as a cause for achieving national unity. In consequence and eventually, everyone starts feeling insecure and the state appropriates a role for wartime…
Swati Solanki On August 26, 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) launched the E-Shram, the web portal for creating a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW. It is the first-ever national of its kind including Construction Workers, Migrant…
Tikender Singh Panwar The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is out. So are the lies of the union minister of housing and urban affairs (MOHUA), Hardeep Puri who kept on harping on the construction of the central…
Anil Trigunayat Over two decades ago President Putin along with the then Indian PM Vajpayee had instituted this vital mechanism that had steered the bilateral relationship into a special and privileged strategic partnership. At the invitation of PM Narendra Modi the Russian…
Leo F Saldanha, Bhargavi S Rao Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advocacy of Zero Budget Natural Farming comes after the controversial farm laws were repealed. But further critical examination is crucial. In a televised address to the nation on the morning…